Word: endeavorment
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...field, professional-football champions are described as not "unduly sober citizens," who "belt the bottle or some barroom companions"; on the field, they endeavor to dismember opponents, pile on the runner, and commit various forms of mayhem. What an inspiration to American youth...
...Oeil, Bohrod explains: "If explanation of these works is needed at all, I might say that they come about particularly because of my impatience with and my reaction against the scattershot, nonobjective and surface-decoration schools of painting which seem to constitute the bulk of current recognized endeavor." Trompe-l'Oeil work, he knows, "is not popular with the esthete. They say . . . we have a machine called a camera that will do it better. I am not convinced. This is not a speck-by-speck translation. It is a distillation process, sending it through an artist, that makes...
American need to get the "finest insights of our finest citizens," he said. "It is time now through education to endeavor to make this operative in lives of more and more of our people...
...hope, the baleful predictions might well come true. When more universities reject self-pity and take instead a forthright stand against each unfounded attack, then education can match, in its own defense, that spirit of progress and initiative which has marked its advance in every other intellectual endeavor...
...Going short" is an ancient and accepted practice in securities markets. It is also such a hazardous endeavor that few market players save virtuosos are advised to try it, and sometimes they are sorry. Last week one such rueful expert was Wall Street's George Geyer, one of the nation's biggest dealers in insurance stocks, who closed the doors of his brokerage house "indefinitely" while he counted up the cost of going short...